Armstrong, James (1)

a Methodist Episcopal minister, was born in the County of Leitrim, Ireland, Dec. 25,1803, and emigrated to the United States when about twelve years old. In 1827 he entered the Ohio Conference; became a member of the Cincinnati Conference on its organization, and in 1871 superannuated, which relation- he sustained until his death, July 1, 1874. Mr. Armstrong was eminently social and cheerful in disposition, extremely modest, fervent in piety, sound and practical in mind, and a success as a pastor. See Minutes of Annual Conferences, 1874, p. 100; Simpson, Cyclop. of Methodism, s.v.